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About The Blog
As implied within its title, Civil War Notebook, is essentially a virtual notebook, archiving my research into the American Civil War. At the time being the primary focus of this blog is original source material from both the antebellum era and the Civil War from 1861-1865. Being a native of the great state of Iowa, naturally this blog occasionally focuses on Iowa and her soldiers and their regiments. Living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a central location in the War's western theater, the Battles of Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Franklin and Nashville are heavily featured in the notebook. Since I travel frequently between southern Iowa and middle Tennessee the focus of this blog sometimes shifts, to St. Louis, Springfield, Illinois and other points of Civil War interest in between. That being said, the above parameters do not limit what may be found in the electric pages of this virtual notebook, as I also have an interest in the events antebellum years and the events that led up to the outbreak of the war. Wherever my curiosity leads me, this blog will be sure to follow.
About Me
As implied within its title, Civil War Notebook, is essentially a virtual notebook, archiving my research into the American Civil War. At the time being the primary focus of this blog is original source material from both the antebellum era and the Civil War from 1861-1865. Being a native of the great state of Iowa, naturally this blog occasionally focuses on Iowa and her soldiers and their regiments. Living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a central location in the War's western theater, the Battles of Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Franklin and Nashville are heavily featured in the notebook. Since I travel frequently between southern Iowa and middle Tennessee the focus of this blog sometimes shifts, to St. Louis, Springfield, Illinois and other points of Civil War interest in between. That being said, the above parameters do not limit what may be found in the electric pages of this virtual notebook, as I also have an interest in the events antebellum years and the events that led up to the outbreak of the war. Wherever my curiosity leads me, this blog will be sure to follow.
The bulk of this blog contains transcriptions from
newspapers of the Civil War era, as well as biographical sketches of the war’s
participants, letters, diaries, speeches, battlefield photographs, and grave stones of
Civil War soldiers. Occasionally I will
feature book reviews. I also have a deep
interest in genealogy and this blog will occasionally feature “Notable Kin”
posts detailing the sometimes unbelievable genealogical connections between the
war’s participants, and other historical figures in the past and the present.
About Me
- Name: Jim Miller
- Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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Hello. My name is Jim Miller. I am 54 years old and a resident of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Prior to my moving to Murfreesboro in August of 2003 I formerly lived on the town square of Osceola, a small town doing big things in south central Iowa. I was born there but grew up in Murray, an even smaller town 10 miles to the west where my parents owned a bar, Miller-Time Tap, for 16 years and my aunt and uncle owned Miller's Grocery, a small three aisle grocery store.
In 1987 I and my 25 classmates graduated from Murray Community School. Immediately thereafter I went into the Air Force. After basic and technical training I spent the remainder of my enlistment as a weather observer at Ellsworth Air Force Base, near the Black Hills of South Dakota. I received an Honorable Discharge in June, 1991 and returned home to Iowa.
For nine years thereafter I worked at Murray Products, a division of Dekko Automotive Technologies, a factory that made automotive wiring harnesses. I was a preblocker (a.k.a. sub-assembler), but during the last year and a half I worked there I was moved on to terminating and wire cutting.
During most of my employ at DAT I attended Southwestern Community College where, on May 12, 2000 I received an Associates of Arts degree. I would eventually love finish up my undergraduate education probably at Middle Tennessee State University here in Murfreesboro and I will likely be a double major in English and History.
I started working at sears.com on 25 SEP 2001 as an On-line Care Associate. Just in time for the Christmas season. I am happy to report that I survived my first retail Christmas season and two more. Though a large part of my job was to give customers an outlet to vent, I for the most part, loved my job. But alas, after 9 years at Murray Products and nearly 3 years at Sears, I felt it was time to move on.
I met my husband, Gregg, online on November 7, 2002 and 800 emails and 9 months later I moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee the following August. We were together 12 years. He passed away December 4, 2015.
In July of 2003 I was offered a position as a customer service representative at Verizon Wireless' new call center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee which precipitated my move here. I began working for them on 2 SEP 2003.in their brand new call center devoted to Wireless Local Number Portability. My job title was a Customer Advocate in Verizon Wireless' Port, Activations and Credit Team. Since August 2023 I have been reassigned as a "Customer Champion," in Verizon Wireless's customer service department. In March 2020 I with a large portion of the rest of the world began working from home and continue to do so, as the call center I worked in for 17 years has been decommissioned and Verizon Wireless has no plans to ever send us back to a physical location.
My interests are quite varied. I enjoy reading and writing. I love books. . . my house could easily be classified as a library as it is full of books. My home office I have christened as The War Room, as every book in it is somehow related to the Civil War, including a biography of Chen and Eng Bunker, better known as the original Siamese Twins. They both had sons who fought for the Confederacy. My bedroom is "The Presidential Suite" as all of the Presidential & Royal biographies are housed in there as well as books on the American Revolution, The War of 1812, And the Mexican-American War. Downstairs in a hodgepodge of Cookboosk, WWI, WWII, Korea, & Vietnam, as well as various other biographies I have a entire bookcase dedicated to aviators & space travel, and another bookcase with shelves dedicated to Tennessee and Iowa (my two home states), and also a shelf for LGBTQ+ history.
I love movies and the theater. Though the movies I typically watch are either comedies, Rom-coms, musicals and dramas (typically of the Oscar nominated type) as well as war movies. I also love stage musicals, which I haven't seen a live show in quite some time. I had to get Disney+ just to watch Hamilton, of which I'm a HUGE fan.
And lastly, I am obsessed with genealogy. I have been able to trace my ancestry on several lines back to the 1600's. I am descended from no less than 17 Mayflower Passengers, a Salem Witch, and two American Immigrants of Royal Descent (which goes back to Afranius Sygarius, a Gallo-Roman Colsul who lived in 381 A. D.
